Not as good for these guys as it will be for me 
Google’s announcement at their i/o conference about Google TV is an exciting one for both A/V nerds and tech/web geeks. Turning your TV into an “open” (I use the word tentatively) platform for development is as enticing a goal as consumer electronics has presented to the larger tech community in a long time. The honest truth is that while the electronics manufacturers are laser-focused on 3D technologies, bringing the web to TV (and TV to the web) is the actual frontier with consumer demand. A poll on my most-trusted of A/V nerd sites (
avsforum.com) found that a very large majority (67%) feel that the 3D push is just the industry’s latest gimmick, and they’re right. Even Sony, Google’s only consumer electronics hardware partner at launch, has staked the future of the company on 3D technologies, precisely because it is the kind of content that is currently impossible to stream via the internet (see
Wired). It is a last-ditch effort to fight the tide of a world free of physical media. So, what’s the road ahead going to be like for Web TV 2.0 in Google’s hands while the device-makers are focused on 3D?
First, there is no need to compare Apple TV to Google TV. Apple TV is a device that can tune in one channel, iTunes. As it currently is designed, that is all it is.
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